words from starpeace
Thinking about this again
‘The love was there’ for Dabi - in this same scene with Twice, he says he doesn’t care about anyone in the league but the audience knows this is a lie
‘It didn’t change anything’ for Compress’ sacrifice because. Yeah. It didn’t work.
‘It didn’t save anyone’ for Toga. It technically did save Ochaco, but it didn’t save her. Or her family.
‘There were just too many forces against it’ for Spinner and Kurogiri. Spinner, who is one of the only surviving members of the league, and none of the things he did for the league saved him in the end because of the heroes. And Kurogiri, who loved Tomura dearly, but he wasn’t Oboro and Tomura wasn’t a hero, so the heroes didn’t see it as worth anything.
‘But it still matters that the love was there’ - and it’s that image. Of the league, of Tomura wanting to be their hero, because that’s the one thing about Tenko/Tomura that AFO had no control over. It matters, because it was actually him. It matters because they were human.
